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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, 3 months ago

   Which reminds me – if Sjælland is Zealand would Hamlet be a Zealand story? and in that case why does the New Zealand story contain a kiwi?
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   misschili said, 3 months ago

   @Tue Elung-Jensen

   Good question, that. Hamhock might well have been from Zealand, but he dare not fess up, as then the tax office (aka Skat Reapers) would demand their due. Oh, and poor Yorick…ah, he doth suffer so, having to listen to that twit twaddle on and on…
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   old1953 said, 3 months ago

   Heh. Yorick’s skull was referring to the custom (still extant) of bones without flesh having no rights of possession. So he’d be dug up and taken to a crypt and packed away with thousands of other bones. This is still extant in much of Europe and the UK. Mark Twain once said in referring to this custom, that there would be some exciting times when the last trump blew, and all the owners of those bones would be trying to sort them all out and get the right ones. LOL.
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   Margaret said, 3 months ago

   His what?
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   pcolli said, 3 months ago

   @Margaret

   I’m not sure either. Maybe it’s his giblets.
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   Harlene said, 3 months ago

   @ Margaret and pcolli: the reference is from Hamlet, Act V, Scene I. Hamlet picks up the skull of Yorick, the court jester and says: “Alas, poor Yorick!—I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: ….. Where be your gibes now?”
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   ossiningaling said, 3 months ago

   Not sure I care for the cut of his jibe.
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   SusanCraig said, 3 months ago

   … or the jut of his giblets?
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   pcolli said, 3 months ago

   I don’t know about other countries but in the UK we don’t get giblets in chickens, any more.
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    swr said, 3 months ago

    gibes as in jokes or zinggers
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